Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | That started a whole new chain of experiences , both sorting out the piece from scratch all over again , and finding out how to cope with such a monumental work technically without ruining my physique ( I am not quite as young as I was ) ! |
| 2 | ‘ I am not always as successful as I hope . |
| 3 | Discs Look , but I 'm evidently not as good at it as he is . |
| 4 | People think I 'm silly , but I 'm not nearly as silly as I appear . |
| 5 | I know what I 'm doing , I know it 's self-destructive and dangerous , but because I 'm not quite as terrifyingly thin as she was , I 'm able to convince myself that I 'm in control , and continue with my exercising mania . |
| 6 | I feel like Judas , but there 's a way out ; not with any honour , perhaps , but I 've looked at myself pretty closely over the last few days and I 've had to admit to myself that I 'm not quite as wonderful a guy as I liked to think I was . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not quite as gullible as you seem to think , Luke , ’ she snapped . |
| 8 | I 'm not quite as rigidly confined by this spell as you may have hoped . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not quite as silly as you think I am , Miguel . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Lola went through such a lot at a young age — I admire her — I 'm certainly not as strong as she is . ’ |
| 11 | Lola went through such a lot at a young age — I admire her — I 'm certainly not as strong as she is . ’ |
| 12 | I was not quite as attentive to the game as perhaps I might have been : - ) |
| 13 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 14 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 15 | What had changed was two things , one that the governor of the state had talked about defying the court rather than actually do it and secondly , that Eisenhower had summoned Forbus to see him at Camp David , the president 's summer retreat in Maryland , and had a weekend of talks with Forbus Now I was n't there , I was at primary school then , but I was n't there as far as one can piece it together what , what Eisenhower said to Forbus was , you know , I do n't really care what you do , but I do n't want it on prime time national television , I do n't want a scene , I do n't want you to flagrantly , openly , publicly to flout the order of the court . |
| 16 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 17 | Though of course I was n't half as attractive as Lesley … ’ |
| 18 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 19 | BELVILLE : I fancy when I was of Pamela 's age I was pretty near as good as she . |
| 20 | returning from my prolonged Summer break , I was initially almost as sceptical as the Tory faithful at Blackpool that John Major faces a leadership crisis . |
| 21 | These appear to be the valid wordings for trusts which are in most common use : ‘ I request ’ , ‘ I ask ’ , ‘ I wish ’ , and ‘ I entrust ’ , which are individually just as effective as if they were all used together . |
| 22 | Of course there are other rack-mounting tuners on the market which are probably just as accurate and reliable , but when it comes to professional credibility Peterson Strobe Tuners are still the thing to go for ; even voltage surges and variations in temperature wo n't upset them . |
| 23 | Looking first at the traces for the insert ( TA ) 10 ( Figures 1a and 2a ) it can be seen that there are nine cleavage products which have a similar intensity to that at the sequence CGC on the 5'-side ( above ) of the insert and which are about twice as strong as that at the AGC site . |
| 24 | In no circumstances was the bulk of the Labour Party prepared to be allied with groups which were clearly not as influential as they had been in the past . |
| 25 | Furthermore , even within the narrow spectrum of industries covered by the above studies there was considerable evidence ( Farberman 1975 : 447 ) of persons being prepared to refuse the offer and accept the consequences , which were not always as severe as the Godfather analogy suggests . |
| 26 | 'e 's not half , 'e 's not half as dirty as 'im . |
| 27 | The important point to focus on is the relationship between the modern economic sector and the informal sector which is clearly not as negative as the formal/informal dichotomy would imply . |
| 28 | The stainless alloy we use is a ‘ 430 ’ type , which is just about as magnetic a stainless as you can find . |
| 29 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 30 | ( Nobody knows the exact date , which is probably just as well : to categorize a house like this can take away some of its romance . ) |